Top 200 European Club Elo Ratings

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W-T-L records are tallied from the last two years of league matches and Champions League play while the Elo rating is accumulated from games starting in 2015.

The last three columns count how many times a team played against a team in the top 50, 150, or 200 over the last two years, with the “6mo elo change” detailing the club’s rise and fall in the past six months.

Graphs of past team performances can be made available at request. An example can be found here.

Last updated December 1, 2023

Rank	Club	Rating	Country	W-T-L	ppg	vs. top50	vs. top100	vs. top200	6m elo change
1	Barcelona	2160	Spain	75-2-4	2.80	30	48	80	+53
2	Lyon	2127	France	55-4-4	2.68	34	50	61	+41
3	Bayern München	1995	Germany	47-9-5	2.46	43	60	61	-62
4	Chelsea	1907	England	43-8-7	2.36	37	55	56	-76
5	Arsenal	1866	England	39-9-12	2.10	39	55	58	+48
6	Wolfsburg	1837	Germany	47-8-8	2.37	44	60	62	-101
7	Häcken	1825	Sweden	39-12-10	2.11	41	60	61	+6
8	SL Benfica	1777	Portugal	53-1-9	2.54	23	34	55	-28
9	PSG	1770	France	42-11-11	2.14	35	47	62	-47
10	Manchester City	1755	England	31-3-9	2.23	24	40	43	+19
11	Paris	1739	France	33-12-9	2.06	26	40	52	+144
12	Eintracht Frankfurt	1737	Germany	35-7-11	2.11	33	50	52	-67
13	Hammarby	1721	Sweden	33-8-11	2.06	32	51	52	+80
14	Roma	1713	Italy	53-6-7	2.50	20	37	54	+116
15	Manchester United	1710	England	29-8-6	2.21	27	40	43	-105
16	Linköping	1670	Sweden	35-8-10	2.13	34	51	52	+42
17	Twente	1640	Netherlands	44-2-4	2.68	10	25	44	+83
18	Hoffenheim	1636	Germany	27-8-11	1.93	30	44	46	-130
19	Ajax	1628	Netherlands	41-7-5	2.45	14	30	47	+36
20	Zenit	1613	Russia	39-10-2	2.49	15	33	49	+33
21	Sporting CP	1586	Portugal	33-5-6	2.36	10	17	42	+15
22	Juventus	1580	Italy	43-14-8	2.20	15	34	52	-10
23	Leverkusen	1574	Germany	13-11-20	1.14	30	43	44	+31
24	Vittsjö	1573	Sweden	27-10-14	1.78	31	49	51	+35
25	Kristianstad	1572	Sweden	30-13-11	1.91	31	53	54	-13
26	Piteå	1549	Sweden	29-8-16	1.79	31	51	53	-9
27	Rosengård	1544	Sweden	36-13-16	1.86	42	63	65	-124
28	CSKA Moskva	1541	Russia	39-4-8	2.37	13	31	49	+2
29	Real Madrid	1519	Spain	58-7-15	2.26	25	43	76	-59
30	Lokomotiv Moskva	1492	Russia	35-7-9	2.20	14	34	49	+16
31	SGS Essen	1455	Germany	12-10-22	1.05	30	43	44	+85
32	Brann	1422	Norway	39-13-10	2.10	19	34	59	+46
33	Atletico Madrid	1420	Spain	35-15-10	2.00	10	25	59	+64
34	Werder Bremen	1414	Germany	11-11-22	1.00	32	43	44	+75
35	AIK	1412	Sweden	24-6-22	1.50	19	33	46	+211
36	Fleury 91	1395	France	22-8-13	1.72	20	33	43	-110
37	Rosenborg	1394	Norway	36-8-12	2.07	16	31	55	+5
38	Stade de Reims	1387	France	21-6-16	1.60	21	30	43	+60
39	Sporting Braga	1378	Portugal	29-5-10	2.09	11	18	40	-53
40	Montpellier	1366	France	21-10-15	1.59	21	34	46	-35
41	Levante	1362	Spain	38-8-17	1.94	14	30	61	+30
42	Slavia Praha	1360	Czech Republic	37-5-9	2.27	12	19	19	+3
43	Freiburg	1355	Germany	16-10-18	1.32	29	43	44	+25
44	Everton	1351	England	12-8-22	1.05	24	39	42	+8
45	Aston Villa	1346	England	14-4-23	1.12	27	38	41	-124
46	Fortuna Sittard	1334	Netherlands	18-4-8	1.93	6	14	27	+37
47	Lillestrøm	1333	Norway	25-14-13	1.71	15	27	50	+149
48	Vålerenga	1333	Norway	35-13-8	2.11	14	34	55	-213
49	Tottenham Hotspur	1332	England	13-9-20	1.14	23	40	42	+52
50	Växjö	1331	Sweden	29-10-14	1.83	16	30	44	-5
51	Liverpool	1330	England	18-10-12	1.60	14	27	31	+92
52	St. Pölten	1324	Austria	41-3-8	2.42	8	16	35	-32
53	Köln	1322	Germany	11-10-23	0.98	28	43	44	-6
54	KIF Örebro	1290	Sweden	19-5-28	1.19	32	51	52	-51
55	Zvezda Perm	1287	Russia	18-14-17	1.39	14	28	47	+97
56	Madrid	1274	Spain	28-6-26	1.50	15	31	58	+42
57	Norrköping	1249	Sweden	25-6-19	1.62	15	30	42	+42
58	Brommapojkarna	1241	Sweden	7-11-35	0.60	39	52	53	+107
59	Fiorentina	1235	Italy	24-7-18	1.61	11	24	42	+87
60	PSV	1232	Netherlands	25-7-14	1.78	11	22	41	+14
61	Leicester City	1230	England	9-5-28	0.76	28	41	42	+58
62	Sevilla	1229	Spain	22-15-22	1.37	14	30	58	+81
63	Brøndby	1219	Denmark	29-6-13	1.94	6	18	43	-11
64	Brighton & Hove Albion	1219	England	9-7-26	0.81	25	41	42	-21
65	Køge	1218	Denmark	35-8-9	2.17	4	19	48	-176
66	Uppsala	1215	Sweden	20-15-17	1.44	16	30	43	+13
67	Duisburg	1208	Germany	17-8-23	1.23	23	32	42	-74
68	West Ham United	1203	England	11-6-25	0.93	25	39	42	-70
69	Dinamo Moskva	1193	Russia	14-2-11	1.63	9	17	25	+95
70	BIIK Kazygurt	1193	Kazakhstan	31-4-2	2.62	0	0	15	-38
71	Le Havre	1193	France	17-13-15	1.42	17	26	39	+107
72	AC Milan	1192	Italy	22-11-16	1.57	13	24	42	-120
73	Trelleborg	1187	Sweden	17-5-4	2.15	1	6	21	+27
74	Bordeaux	1185	France	15-8-21	1.20	20	32	44	-118
75	Djurgården	1173	Sweden	14-8-31	0.94	34	52	53	-20
76	Valur	1171	Iceland	33-9-7	2.20	4	5	35	-35
77	Racing Seixal	1161	Portugal	4-1-3	1.63	2	2	8	+11
78	Guingamp	1157	France	13-6-26	1.00	22	33	45	-72
79	Turbine Potsdam	1153	Germany	17-7-23	1.23	24	36	42	-94
80	PEC Zwolle	1150	Netherlands	17-8-20	1.31	11	25	41	+67
81	Internazionale	1141	Italy	22-10-17	1.55	11	26	41	-10
82	Fortuna Hjørring	1131	Denmark	25-6-17	1.69	9	20	44	-100
83	Dinamo-BGU	1120	Belarus	56-3-2	2.80	2	2	8	+42
84	Kiryat Gat	1120	Israel	40-11-3	2.43	1	1	21	-18
85	ADO Den Haag	1119	Netherlands	21-8-15	1.61	12	19	39	-58
86	Marítimo	1118	Portugal	17-3-24	1.23	14	23	40	+207
87	Stabæk	1115	Norway	18-10-24	1.23	22	32	51	+54
88	Famalicão	1111	Portugal	20-6-18	1.50	15	17	41	-97
89	RB Leipzig	1111	Germany	33-6-13	2.02	6	13	38	+15
90	Alingsås	1105	Sweden	31-15-7	2.04	2	15	41	-52
91	Sparta Praha	1101	Czech Republic	25-7-10	1.95	10	12	12	-44
92	Rangers	1098	Scotland	54-9-4	2.55	2	5	19	+65
93	UD Tenerife	1082	Spain	27-10-22	1.54	13	25	58	-28
94	Meppen	1081	Germany	21-9-20	1.44	16	24	41	-123
95	Real Sociedad	1081	Spain	27-13-22	1.52	14	25	62	-17
96	Nordsjælland	1078	Denmark	17-11-18	1.35	7	23	41	+130
97	Celtic	1073	Scotland	53-5-8	2.48	1	9	16	+72
98	Spartak Subotica	1069	Serbia	27-3-4	2.47	3	3	4	-1
99	Lidköping	1062	Sweden	24-13-15	1.63	0	14	38	+73
100	Lyn	1060	Norway	18-15-19	1.33	14	29	49	-8
101	Altach / Vorderland	1055	Austria	26-4-6	2.28	3	8	20	+62
102	Dijon	1044	France	6-10-28	0.64	24	35	44	+36
103	Chertanovo	1040	Russia	17-10-22	1.24	11	28	46	-134
104	Athletic Club	1039	Spain	23-8-29	1.28	15	30	59	+16
105	Krasnodar	1036	Russia	15-10-25	1.10	12	29	47	+83
106	Nürnberg	1028	Germany	25-3-22	1.56	7	14	39	+31
107	Valadares Gaia	1024	Portugal	20-8-16	1.55	9	13	33	+143
108	Damaiense	1018	Portugal	14-7-9	1.63	8	11	28	+1
109	Utrecht	1012	Netherlands	5-2-4	1.55	2	6	10	+12
110	Stjarnan	1010	Iceland	22-10-11	1.77	1	8	33	-21
111	Sturm Graz	1010	Austria	27-4-9	2.13	6	6	23	-141
112	Thróttur Reykjavík	1008	Iceland	21-6-14	1.68	0	6	31	+95
113	Sassuolo	1007	Italy	18-11-20	1.33	8	19	37	-47
114	Breidablik	1004	Iceland	24-7-14	1.76	2	8	33	-39
115	Eskilstuna United	1003	Sweden	22-10-21	1.43	17	34	47	-210
116	Rostov	1002	Russia	17-11-23	1.22	18	30	48	-180
117	Torreense	984	Portugal	12-10-22	1.05	15	23	41	+28
118	Levante Las Planas	979	Spain	20-17-24	1.26	8	19	50	+98
119	Yenisey	976	Russia	13-10-27	0.98	12	27	47	+42
120	Ryazan	976	Russia	10-8-32	0.76	15	32	48	-28
121	Umeå	975	Sweden	14-7-31	0.94	20	35	46	-78
122	Bristol City	974	England	22-7-14	1.70	5	10	19	+51
123	Birmingham City	971	England	24-5-18	1.64	11	12	23	-55
124	Mallbacken	968	Sweden	21-9-22	1.38	2	15	39	+90
125	SC Sand	965	Germany	19-13-19	1.37	10	16	40	+57
126	Real Betis	965	Spain	14-16-30	0.97	12	31	59	+34
127	Deportivo	961	Spain	32-17-17	1.71	0	0	27	+107
128	Lille	960	France	26-7-12	1.89	5	8	19	+27
129	Saint-Étienne	956	France	20-6-19	1.47	10	18	25	+55
130	Valencia	954	Spain	19-10-31	1.12	13	30	59	-7
131	Kalmar	952	Sweden	5-7-39	0.43	36	51	51	-86
132	First Vienna	951	Austria	20-3-13	1.75	4	7	19	+182
133	Kolbotn	951	Norway	28-8-14	1.84	6	14	24	-28
134	Gamla Upsala	945	Sweden	22-10-19	1.49	1	18	38	-48
135	Feyenoord	934	Netherlands	13-9-23	1.07	11	24	40	-91
136	Jitex	930	Sweden	24-7-21	1.52	1	17	36	+5
137	Røa	925	Norway	8-14-31	0.72	16	33	50	-23
138	Villarreal	920	Spain	14-14-32	0.93	14	32	58	+29
139	Kolding	917	Denmark	14-10-22	1.13	7	24	42	-31
140	OH Leuven	915	Belgium	40-8-8	2.29	0	4	13	+1
141	Glasgow City	912	Scotland	53-7-10	2.37	1	10	18	-75
142	Marseille	911	France	27-6-10	2.02	0	0	8	+75
143	Thisted FC	906	Denmark	10-7-29	0.80	8	24	42	+59
144	Sundsvall	903	Sweden	15-5-31	0.98	0	17	41	+238
145	Como	900	Italy	24-11-19	1.54	6	13	27	+100
146	Gütersloh	898	Germany	24-11-19	1.54	0	7	38	-85
147	Åsane	897	Norway	18-7-22	1.30	8	19	33	+99
148	Alhama	897	Spain	23-14-23	1.38	7	16	36	+21
149	Barcelona II	889	Spain	36-10-16	1.90	0	0	28	+33
150	Carl Zeiss Jena	887	Germany	19-7-26	1.23	10	17	40	-7
151	Espanyol	884	Spain	28-18-14	1.70	0	1	29	+176
152	Arna-Bjørnar	882	Norway	12-8-33	0.83	14	31	50	-77
153	Andernach	879	Germany	24-18-12	1.67	0	6	37	-30
154	KuPS	869	Finland	39-5-7	2.39	3	5	5	+117
155	Thór / KA	868	Iceland	15-5-21	1.22	0	6	31	+55
156	AGF	866	Denmark	16-3-17	1.42	3	12	23	+54
157	Charlton Athletic	866	England	22-12-11	1.73	0	5	16	+114
158	Reading	860	England	9-9-25	0.84	20	30	35	-291
159	Albergaria	860	Portugal	9-7-28	0.77	16	23	42	-63
160	Strasbourg	858	France	24-10-8	1.95	0	0	9	+98
161	Avaldsnes	853	Norway	11-10-33	0.80	15	29	49	+14
162	Anderlecht	847	Belgium	45-5-10	2.33	0	1	14	-110
163	Eintracht Frankfurt II	840	Germany	22-11-21	1.43	0	5	36	+26
164	Tomiris Turan	838	Kazakhstan	20-5-11	1.81	1	8	17	+2
165	Apollon Limassol	835	Cyprus	43-1-3	2.77	2	2	2	-1
166	Rodez	834	France	15-7-19	1.27	12	19	26	-143
167	Rubin Kazan	834	Russia	8-14-28	0.76	12	32	47	-68
168	Tindastóll	832	Iceland	7-5-9	1.24	0	4	16	+85
169	Eibar	831	Spain	19-17-24	1.23	7	16	43	-18
170	FH	829	Iceland	8-5-10	1.26	0	4	19	+134
171	Heerenveen	829	Netherlands	10-5-29	0.80	10	25	41	-121
172	Minsk	828	Belarus	51-2-8	2.54	2	9	9	-82
173	Osasuna	824	Spain	30-17-16	1.70	0	0	29	+36
174	Hapoel Jerusalem	816	Israel	15-9-8	1.69	0	3	9	+55
175	Granada	816	Spain	29-12-25	1.50	3	7	31	-118
176	Sampdoria	814	Italy	14-5-30	0.96	7	20	38	+26
177	Deportivo Alavés	808	Spain	11-13-36	0.77	10	26	53	-61
178	Neulengbach	808	Austria	18-2-16	1.56	4	7	19	-11
179	PAOK	807	Greece	41-1-3	2.76	1	2	2	+7
180	Ferencváros	804	Hungary	46-4-1	2.78	0	2	2	+29
181	Excelsior	800	Netherlands	5-9-31	0.53	11	26	43	+91
182	Standard Liège	795	Belgium	32-9-15	1.88	0	4	16	+19
183	Austria Wien	795	Austria	16-6-14	1.50	4	7	19	-18
184	Crystal Palace	792	England	23-4-17	1.66	0	2	16	+105
185	Mönchengladbach	792	Germany	4-3-5	1.25	0	2	6	-63
186	Vilaverdense	790	Portugal	10-3-31	0.75	15	23	43	-139
187	Sporting de Huelva	789	Spain	12-15-33	0.85	14	31	60	-133
188	Okzhetpes	788	Kazakhstan	21-6-11	1.82	1	9	17	-134
189	Ingolstadt	787	Germany	20-10-26	1.25	0	7	41	+85
190	Ouriense	787	Portugal	13-9-22	1.09	8	11	32	-1
191	Nantes	781	France	22-8-13	1.72	0	0	13	+37
192	Keflavík	771	Iceland	11-7-21	1.03	0	6	29	+81
193	Telstar	769	Netherlands	5-5-21	0.65	7	18	29	-3
194	Southampton	767	England	16-6-11	1.64	0	2	11	+59
195	ASA Tel Aviv	760	Israel	18-10-21	1.31	0	1	19	+38
196	Albacete	758	Spain	21-19-21	1.34	0	0	21	+53
197	AEM Lleida	758	Spain	28-12-21	1.57	0	0	25	-12
198	Bromölla	756	Sweden	17-8-27	1.13	1	13	39	-147
199	Bayern München II	752	Germany	23-9-21	1.47	0	6	34	-83
200	Bollstanäs	744	Sweden	4-11-10	0.92	1	9	21	+18

Women's International Football Elo Ratings

Below are Elo ratings for international women's teams. For a hypothetical FAQ, click here.

Elo Ratings
Last updated through April 18, 2022

rk	country	rating	federation	2yr change	2yr W-T-L
1	USA	1886	CONCACAF	-133	22 - 5 - 2
2	France	1832	UEFA	20	20 - 1 - 1
3	Sweden	1801	UEFA	132	22 - 6 - 0
4	Germany	1775	UEFA	-46	14 - 1 - 3
5	Netherlands	1726	UEFA	-21	16 - 6 - 4
6	England	1692	UEFA	-23	11 - 1 - 3
7	Canada	1673	CONCACAF	50	8 - 8 - 3
8	Brazil	1673	CONMEBOL	53	12 - 7 - 3
9	Spain	1668	UEFA	56	15 - 1 - 0
10	North Korea	1620	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
11	Australia	1587	AFC	-74	8 - 4 - 10
12	Italy	1582	UEFA	33	14 - 3 - 2
13	Japan	1553	AFC	-42	9 - 4 - 3
14	Norway	1537	UEFA	-51	11 - 1 - 5
15	Denmark	1503	UEFA	10	14 - 2 - 3
16	China	1499	AFC	-7	5 - 3 - 2
17	Iceland	1476	UEFA	70	13 - 2 - 4
18	South Korea	1473	AFC	53	8 - 2 - 4
19	Austria	1380	UEFA	11	11 - 3 - 4
20	Belgium	1374	UEFA	-13	12 - 3 - 6
21	Switzerland	1327	UEFA	-54	8 - 5 - 5
22	Mexico	1299	CONCACAF	54	8 - 3 - 4
23	Nigeria	1267	CAF	1	5 - 2 - 4
24	Colombia	1263	CONMEBOL	-23	5 - 4 - 3
25	Scotland	1261	UEFA	-168	8 - 2 - 8
26	Costa Rica	1250	CONCACAF	-17	8 - 2 - 2
27	Portugal	1248	UEFA	67	11 - 3 - 7
28	New Zealand	1237	OFC	-12	1 - 1 - 10
29	Russia	1221	UEFA	47	14 - 3 - 4
30	Czech Republic	1217	UEFA	61	4 - 8 - 5
31	Finland	1210	UEFA	41	8 - 4 - 5
32	Vietnam	1206	AFC	-28	4 - 1 - 4
33	Ireland	1206	UEFA	61	5 - 2 - 9
34	Chile	1196	CONMEBOL	-31	6 - 3 - 8
35	Argentina	1194	CONMEBOL	-30	1 - 4 - 7
36	Wales	1155	UEFA	15	8 - 3 - 7
37	Poland	1151	UEFA	-76	7 - 4 - 8
38	Jamaica	1145	CONCACAF	28	5 - 1 - 1
39	Serbia	1104	UEFA	109	11 - 1 - 5
40	Cameroon	1100	CAF	1	4 - 1 - 1
41	Taiwan	1097	AFC	3	3 - 1 - 3
42	Ukraine	1081	UEFA	-40	11 - 2 - 5
43	Ghana	1052	CAF	4	3 - 0 - 2
44	Paraguay	1043	CONMEBOL	-4	3 - 3 - 3
45	South Africa	1035	CAF	-53	7 - 3 - 3
46	Hungary	1030	UEFA	28	6 - 3 - 8
47	Haiti	1018	CONCACAF	32	4 - 0 - 0
48	Venezuela	1012	CONMEBOL	46	4 - 3 - 3
49	Romania	1009	UEFA	60	8 - 1 - 6
50	Panama	1007	CONCACAF	40	8 - 2 - 3
51	Slovakia	1007	UEFA	59	7 - 3 - 10
52	Myanmar	1000	AFC	19	3 - 1 - 2
53	Papua New Guinea	996	OFC	2	2 - 0 - 0
54	Uzbekistan	994	AFC	-30	6 - 3 - 6
55	Ivory Coast	992	CAF	-8	2 - 0 - 2
56	Thailand	987	AFC	-106	3 - 0 - 5
57	Northern Ireland	980	UEFA	128	11 - 2 - 6
58	Slovenia	963	UEFA	79	10 - 2 - 3
59	Philippines	952	AFC	113	6 - 1 - 2
60	Zambia	923	CAF	28	6 - 6 - 3
61	Trinidad and Tobago	896	CONCACAF	-15	3 - 4 - 1
62	Equatorial Guinea	876	CAF	-50	1 - 0 - 3
63	Puerto Rico	874	CONCACAF	27	6 - 1 - 3
64	Guyana	872	CONCACAF	-32	2 - 2 - 2
65	India	870	AFC	-22	5 - 0 - 9
66	Cuba	868	CONCACAF	-31	2 - 1 - 1
67	Morocco	848	CAF	43	6 - 0 - 2
68	Guatemala	840	CONCACAF	-27	3 - 0 - 5
69	Ecuador	837	CONMEBOL	-26	3 - 4 - 8
70	Tunisia	829	CAF	82	6 - 0 - 3
71	Peru	825	CONMEBOL	1	0 - 2 - 2
72	Congo DR	809	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
73	Belarus	806	UEFA	32	5 - 2 - 5
74	Mali	804	CAF	-8	6 - 1 - 3
75	Algeria	804	CAF	37	3 - 1 - 1
76	Iran	799	AFC	-12	1 - 2 - 4
77	Senegal	797	CAF	61	7 - 1 - 2
78	Fiji	796	OFC	-33	0 - 0 - 2
79	Croatia	792	UEFA	-66	3 - 2 - 9
80	Uruguay	789	CONMEBOL	48	2 - 2 - 3
81	Jordan	788	AFC	-57	2 - 3 - 4
82	Zimbabwe	787	CAF	-20	5 - 0 - 2
83	Kenya	784	CAF	8	2 - 0 - 0
84	Bosnia and Herzegovina	777	UEFA	9	6 - 3 - 8
85	Greece	773	UEFA	-8	6 - 2 - 6
86	Dominican Republic	744	CONCACAF	15	5 - 3 - 4
87	St. Kitts and Nevis	743	CONCACAF	45	3 - 0 - 1
88	Tanzania	723	CAF	-8	4 - 1 - 2
89	Ethiopia	715	CAF	-14	3 - 0 - 1
90	Turkey	709	UEFA	63	7 - 2 - 8
91	Bermuda	704	CONCACAF	-9	2 - 0 - 2
92	Congo	687	CAF	-18	1 - 0 - 1
93	Hong Kong	674	AFC	-50	0 - 1 - 2
94	Albania	674	UEFA	24	4 - 2 - 8
95	Burkina Faso	669	CAF	86	4 - 0 - 0
96	St. Lucia	664	CONCACAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
97	Egypt	662	CAF	-43	0 - 1 - 3
98	Laos	656	AFC	-7	0 - 1 - 1
99	Namibia	646	CAF	117	5 - 3 - 1
100	Israel	637	UEFA	-36	2 - 1 - 10
101	Nicaragua	634	CONCACAF	71	5 - 1 - 3
102	Malawi	633	CAF	68	3 - 1 - 3
103	Malaysia	628	AFC	14	1 - 0 - 1
104	New Caledonia	626	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
105	El Salvador	618	CONCACAF	-14	3 - 0 - 4
106	Uganda	613	CAF	39	2 - 1 - 2
107	Nepal	613	AFC	-6	1 - 2 - 1
108	Botswana	612	CAF	84	4 - 0 - 4
109	Suriname	611	CONCACAF	17	2 - 1 - 3
110	Honduras	607	CONCACAF	29	2 - 1 - 1
111	Burundi	604	CAF	81	4 - 0 - 0
112	Bolivia	604	CONMEBOL	-11	0 - 1 - 3
113	Bahrain	603	AFC	-20	0 - 1 - 2
114	Barbados	593	CONCACAF	-93	2 - 1 - 3
115	Azerbaijan	575	UEFA	-48	4 - 1 - 11
116	Montenegro	571	UEFA	86	6 - 0 - 9
117	Tonga	569	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
118	Indonesia	567	AFC	3	2 - 0 - 3
119	Angola	565	CAF	-153	0 - 2 - 5
120	Cook Islands	563	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
121	Malta	554	UEFA	45	5 - 1 - 10
122	Togo	534	CAF	63	3 - 0 - 0
123	Guinea	534	CAF	-51	0 - 2 - 3
124	Kosovo	530	UEFA	27	4 - 2 - 9
125	Rwanda	530	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
126	Kazakhstan	526	UEFA	-99	1 - 0 - 12
127	Bulgaria	526	UEFA	-102	1 - 1 - 11
128	Lebanon	524	AFC	11	2 - 0 - 4
129	Gambia	519	CAF	10	2 - 1 - 5
130	Martinique	517	CONCACAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
131	Samoa	514	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
132	Tahiti	513	OFC	-87	0 - 1 - 2
133	Liberia	512	CAF	25	3 - 0 - 4
134	Chad	508	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
135	Gabon	504	CAF	-26	1 - 0 - 3
136	Botswanna	491	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
137	Central African Republic	490	CAF	-3	0 - 0 - 2
138	Reunion	489	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
139	Antigua and Barbuda	487	CONCACAF	11	3 - 0 - 3
140	United Arab Emirates	485	AFC	-28	2 - 0 - 5
141	Curacao	483	CONCACAF	-9	1 - 0 - 3
142	Cyprus	469	UEFA	-12	0 - 1 - 11
143	Benin	469	CAF	-41	0 - 0 - 2
144	Saudi Arabia	465	AFC	15	2 - 0 - 0
145	Lithuania	465	UEFA	131	6 - 2 - 10
146	Sierra Leone	464	CAF	-22	0 - 4 - 1
147	Cape Verde	462	CAF	12	1 - 1 - 3
148	Bahamas	461	CONCACAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
149	Moldova	460	UEFA	-83	0 - 0 - 13
150	Cambodia	459	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
151	Kyrgyzstan	459	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
152	Faroe Islands	445	UEFA	-78	1 - 1 - 12
153	Guam	442	AFC	-70	0 - 0 - 3
154	Solomon Islands	439	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
155	Syria	438	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
156	Eritrea	436	CAF	-56	0 - 0 - 2
157	Bangladesh	432	AFC	17	1 - 1 - 3
158	Luxembourg	416	UEFA	139	6 - 0 - 6
159	Anguilla	411	CONCACAF	-43	0 - 0 - 4
160	Tajikistan	401	AFC	9	1 - 0 - 1
161	Guinea-Bissau	400	CAF	-77	2 - 0 - 5
162	Macedonia	398	UEFA	16	2 - 0 - 13
163	Madagascar	393	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
164	Palestine	382	AFC	-22	0 - 0 - 2
165	Turkmenistan	380	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
166	St. Vincent / Grenadines	379	CONCACAF	4	1 - 0 - 2
167	Singapore	370	AFC	-11	1 - 0 - 3
168	Niger	363	CAF	-7	0 - 0 - 2
169	Macau	361	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
170	Guadeloupe	360	CONCACAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
171	Libya	355	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
172	Lesotho	354	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
173	Eswatini	352	CAF	-39	0 - 0 - 5
174	Georgia	340	UEFA	-34	1 - 1 - 9
175	Estonia	335	UEFA	-22	2 - 1 - 13
176	Cayman Islands	334	CONCACAF	23	1 - 0 - 3
177	Mongolia	325	AFC	-2	0 - 0 - 2
178	Vanuatu	323	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
179	Latvia	320	UEFA	-70	1 - 1 - 15
180	Armenia	316	UEFA	-17	2 - 2 - 9
181	Mozambique	310	CAF	6	0 - 1 - 4
182	US Virgin Islands	307	CONCACAF	-51	0 - 0 - 6
183	Sri Lanka	304	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
184	Sudan	299	CAF	-1	0 - 0 - 1
185	Belize	293	CONCACAF	46	1 - 1 - 2
186	Liechtenstein	290	UEFA	-10	3 - 0 - 2
187	Dominica	286	CONCACAF	4	1 - 0 - 3
188	Seychelles	279	CAF	-21	0 - 0 - 3
189	Comoros	271	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
190	Grenada	270	CONCACAF	-50	0 - 0 - 4
191	Timor-Leste	270	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
192	Northern Mariana Islands	256	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
193	Djibouti	251	CAF	-25	0 - 0 - 2
194	South Sudan	226	CAF	-22	0 - 0 - 7
195	Mauritania	226	CAF	-17	0 - 0 - 2
196	American Samoa	201	OFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
197	Pakistan	164	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
198	Afghanistan	151	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
199	British Virgin Islands	146	CONCACAF	-20	0 - 0 - 4
200	Iraq	145	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
201	Sao Tome e Principe	139	CAF	-18	0 - 0 - 1
202	Maldives	135	AFC	-18	0 - 0 - 4
203	Zanzibar	129	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
204	Mauritius	123	CAF	0	0 - 0 - 0
205	Turks and Caicos Islands	97	CONCACAF	-22	0 - 0 - 4
206	Bhutan	92	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
207	Kuwait	90	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
208	Aruba	90	CONCACAF	3	0 - 1 - 3
209	Gibraltar	76	UEFA	-24	1 - 0 - 5
210	Qatar	48	AFC	0	0 - 0 - 0
211	Andorra	36	UEFA	26	1 - 1 - 0

Women's International Elo Ratings - FAQ

To view the latest rankings, You can view the ratings here.

What is Elo?

The Elo rating system is a rating system that awards points to teams based on competitive play. Originally designed for chess, Elo has since been adopted for other sports and has been viewed as an alternative ranking system to FIFA's rankings. The general idea is centered around stealing points from your opponents and adding them to your own score. If you beat a strong team, you take a large number of points. If you defeat an inferior team, you take only a few points from them. (Wikipedia)

FIFA has their own ratings for the women's game. Why create Elo ratings?

Most people are familiar with the Elo ratings we use on the men's side and FIFA's women's ratings are generally similar, they just use a different approach. FIFA actually uses a type of Elo ratings, as there isn't a "right" way to do compile them. However FIFA's approach to the women's ratings creates a noticeably different outcome than the method used for the men's Elo ratings. These rankings here are made to have a mirror to the men's rankings, without the headaches that FIFA institutes in theirs.

It should be noted that FIFA men's ratings are done different than their ratings on the women's side. It's not clear why they wouldn't use one system for both. Regardless, I'll refer to these ratings here as Elo because they're more in line with the commonly accepted version.

How are FIFA and Elo different?

In the top rankings, the order of teams are similar from one ranking system to another, although the gap between teams is different. As of August 2016, number ten rated Canada is 230 points behind the US in FIFA's rankings. In the Elo ratings, the gap is almost twice as much at 400, from USA and (#10) North Korea.

Beyond the top teams, there is a large discrepancy between rankings for the lower rated nations. Nations can regularly be rated a difference of 40 spots between systems and as high as 90. This is due to the starting rating, which will affect how many points teams gain or lose when they earn a result. Sometimes FIFA will give starting ratings as high as 2000, while other times they will start teams at 400, like they did with Mauritius. While starting ratings eventually lose their importance after hundreds of matches, most nations have not played a hundred games and the 1600 difference between teams can have major implications on future ratings. Elo starting ratings range from 600 to 1800 and are based on each nation's performance to avoid big swings in ratings.

The specific approach between the ratings are fairly different. For example, FIFA rankings can actually take away points from a winner if they do not win by enough, which Elo does not do. There also isn't a difference in winning 6-0 as there is 40-0 in FIFA's ratings.

Additionally there are odd restrictions to FIFA's rankings on the women's side. First, it only reaches back to 2003, despite having most of all international games on their site. Secondly, there is a stipulation that if a country does not play a game within eighteen months, they immediately drop to the bottom. As I write this, Argentina has recently dropped 99 spots to last place. (Technically they are not rated although they would be 133, after Botswana at 132.) Although apparently this is only temporarily, as Argentina are no strangers to the quick maneuver.

Argentina's FIFA ranking by year

Overall, FIFA ratings favor European, Asian, and South American teams while North American and African teams are rated higher in Elo ratings. FIFA originally rated countries whose national team programs started earlier much higher than those that started late, while many of those older teams have low winning percentages (Estonia at 31%, but 87 spots higher in FIFA than Elo, as of October 2017) and have fallen down in the Elo ratings. Newer teams have not lost as many games and are still rated middle of the road, while FIFA has already downrated them before playing a dozen matches.

What are limitations of these Elo ratings?

Probably the biggest point for discussion is the base rating for a country. Every team has to start with a rating and this can range greatly. On the men's side, Elo ratings range from 1800 (great starting spot) to 600 (very bad). After a few hundred games, the starting point is relatively pointless and would only change a rating 200 games later by peanuts. However for teams that are low on games played, it does have a larger influence.

To give a clearer example, US women's team has played around 600 games, giving them a rating of 2176. Their base rating, before they played any games, was 1600. If I drop their base rating of 1600 to 600 their overall rating only drops to 2161. After 600 some odd games, their rating gets finalized.

An example of a country that hasn't played several hundred games is Equatorial Guinea. They have at Elo rating of 1231 over 44 games with a base rating of 900. Their rating of 1231 puts them 32nd in the world, but FIFA has them at 50st. FIFA has given them a lower base rating than a 900. If we move their base rating to 1200, they move to 1272, 29th overall. So to be honest I am not quite sure why Equatorial Guinea is so low in FIFA rankings. But all that to say, base ratings were tricky to finalize but ultimately not a big deal for countries who have played at least 50 games, which was most teams.

The only other hurdle I ran into was the K factor that Elo ratings use. The K factor weighs each game in importance. A friendly is basically worth one third of a World Cup game and everything else between that varies. (FIFA also weighs games less than Elo.) Again, there's reasoning behind doing so, it's just going to change the outcome if the math is different. (Read more about them Elo game weights here.)

How do the women's Elo ratings compare to the men's?

It is no secret that the men's game has more depth than the women's side and now we can see that more concretely. The top forty teams are separated by 400 points on the men's side, while the women are almost at 1000 points from USA to fortieth ranked Ivory Coast. Even inside the top ten we can see the disparity as USA is 400 points higher than North Korea.

However the women's Elo rankings are designed after the men's so they can be somewhat comparable. The lowest base Elo rating is 600, despite some 40 teams on the women's side being south of 600. The maximum base rating for the women's side is 1600.

How do Elo ratings compare between different generations?

Elo ratings are a system to show how dominate one team is at one given time. We can't directly compare the men's game to the women's as the landscapes are vastly different but even over time, it is tricky to compare the 1999 USWNT to the 2015 squad. Both teams get over 2100 points but it is in reference to their competition. For example, if the rest of the world - for whatever reason - became significantly worse over time, then a 2100 against weaker teams would not be the same as a 2100 when the rest of the world was better. Of course it is tough to say objectively if teams are better or worse over time, but it should be kept in mind when comparing two different periods of time.

How many games do you have in your database?

Currently I have 8677 games that start from April 1, 1920 to July 31, 2016.